Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components. Tags: Brief. Driving Growth: How Clean Cars and Climate Policy Can Create Jobs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars. Future of Mobility Roadmap.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2010

As a result, automobile manufacturers are able to create packages of technologies that can meet cost and effectiveness targets in small, incremental steps. Variable compression ratio, camless valve trains, and homogeneous-charge compression ignition were all given careful consideration during the course of this study.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

According to the study, higher fuel economy standards would benefit the Detroit 3 automakers the most. Modeling the impact of increased fuel economy standards, the study finds that an industry-wide mandated increase in fuel economy of 30% to 50% (35 miles per gallon to 40.4 Tags: Fuel Efficiency. Source: McManus and Kleinbaum.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. If by 2015, 2.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

While espousing the "electrification of the automobile," Waggoner made no firm committment. He derides automakers for not focusing on more efficient internal combution engines. Roland: When will that long-promised plug-in study appear? Tags: environmentalism NRDC UCS. Could there be a more pathetic response?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

A recent study of approximately a hundred offset projects by the journal Climate Policy found that just 60 percent of projects actually provided evidence that the CDM funding made a difference, and that 40 percent of companies would likely have reduced emissions anyway. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Lack of Additionality.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

In a session on total vehicle energy consumption, several people shared similar pie charts showing the flow of energy within an automobile. For every kJ of chemical energy in the fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, 73 % is sacrificed to chemical and thermal losses. Tags: Brief. Where does all of the energy go?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The global warming provisions in the discussion draft are modeled closely on the recommendations of the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a coalition of electric utilities, oil companies, chemical companies, automobile manufacturers, other manufacturers and energy companies, and environmental organizations. Banking and Borrowing.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Despite its progress however, it seems there is still an uphill battle to be fought both in terms of changing the perception of and reliance on fossil fuels – with a new study highlighting the startling gap between Federal subsidies for fossil fuels and renewable energy. Tags: The Green Piece fossil fuels green piece. Faye Sunderland.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

France-based MDI (Moteur Development International), the developer of a compressed air powertrain and several derivative vehicles, officially handed over the keys to two AirPods to KLM earlier in December. UC Berkeley Study Concludes Compressed Air Cars Not as Efficient as BEVs. The AirPod. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2010

A 2006 study by Lambert and Jones at San Diego State University on waste-heat powered mobile adsorption air conditioners put the power used by the mechanical air conditioning compressor of subcompact to mid-sized cars during commuting at 12-17%.) Automobile Engineering. Tags: Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems. kW with 2-kW peaks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Tim Searchinger, a research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute and a fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, is lead author of the “accounting” study. Tags: Biomass Climate Change Emissions Land use Policy. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Cronin, Sergey Paltsev, Benjamin S. Sokolov, C.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. He knew very little about making cars but proved to be a quick study. executive who has studied BYD. He started BYD with a modest goal: to edge in on the Japanese-dominated battery business. You want to meet him."

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Unlike internal combustion engines, electric motors yield their maximum torque at extremely low rpms, practically from the starting position. The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. This fleet test is a broad-based study.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Currently there are only about 1,500 500 plug-in hybrids and 500 1,500 pure electric cars, according to Plug-In America.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Most days, most cars are going to have lots of extra battery capacity,” said Mr. Kempton, noting that on average, American automobiles get driven for just one hour each day. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s — CGC 22.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

RGGI: A Case Study. While opponents of clean energy reform falsely claim that a cap-and-trade system would harm the economy, RGGI provides a working model and active case study of how reducing pollution can actually drive economic growth. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Perspective Policy. TLC and Equity Capital. Renergie”).

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